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Retirement: Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will be retired on March 30, 2029
On March 30, 2029, Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will be retired. Please migrate to latest generally available...
[In preview] Public Preview: Bulk Restore for Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Backup
Azure Backup now supports ‘Bulk Restore’ for Azure virtual machines (VMs), enabling customers to restore multiple VMs...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Shell—your new command line for data workflows
Azure Cosmos DB Shell is now available in public preview, introducing a modern command-line experience with agentic...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files enable backup by default
Azure NetApp Files now enables backup by default when creating new volumes, delivering a more seamless and secure...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB spherical quantization for improved vector search
Azure Cosmos DB now offers spherical quantization in public preview to help you achieve faster vector indexing with...
Designing front-end systems for cloud failure
Modern frontend applications rely on cloud services for far more than basic data fetching. Authentication, search,...
Building AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry
At first glance, Microsoft Foundry looks like a big grab bag of every AI-adjacent service that Microsoft has offered...
No, AI won’t destroy software development jobs
I’m not even remotely worried about AI eliminating software development jobs. In fact, I’m pretty sure there will soon...
Supply-chain attacks take aim at your AI coding agents
Attackers too are looking to cash in on the AI coding craze, adapting their supply-chain techniques to target coding...
Retirement: Azure Reserved Virtual Machines Instances for select VM series
Starting July 1, 2026, purchases and renewals will no longer be available for one-year Azure Reserved VM Instances for...
[In preview] Public Preview: Application Gateway for Containers managed add-on + AKS Automatic
We previously announced the availability of Application Gateway for Containers and the Application Gateway for...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Elastic SAN support for AVS Gen2 Private Cloud
Elastic SAN datastores deliver simpler connectivity and improved performance when used with AVS Gen2 Private Cloud:...
[Launched] Generally Available: Single Volume Snapshots on Azure Elastic SAN
Azure Elastic SAN now supports single volume snapshots, enabling incremental, point‑in‑time backups of individual SAN...
[Launched] Generally Available: AVS Support for AV64 SKU on Azure Elastic SAN
Azure Elastic SAN datastores are now supported with AV64 SKUs, enabling higher-scale and higher-performance storage...
Oracle will patch more often to counter AI cybersecurity threat
Oracle plans to issue security patches for its ERP, database, and other software on a monthly cycle, rather than...
AI finds 20-year-old bugs in PostgreSQL and MariaDB
Open-source databases are facing a bit of a memory problem as AI helps surface decades-old buffer overflow issues in...
The agentic AI distraction
I’ve been watching the cloud market long enough to know when a useful innovation becomes a strategic distraction....
Vibe coding or spec-driven development?
Vibe coding and spec-driven development (SDD) are two emerging approaches where devops teams use AI to develop all of...
Diskless databases: What happens when storage isn’t the bottleneck
In 2021, I was developing software for an aerospace manufacturer and met with our machine learning team to discuss...
SAP to acquire data lakehouse vendor Dremio
SAP on Monday announced plans to acquire Dremio, which bills itself as an agentic lakehouse company, for an...